What's News: Business & Finance -- WSJ
November 19 2019 - 03:02AM
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American Express is offering sign-on bonuses to some businesses
that don't take its cards in a bid to catch up to rivals Visa and
Mastercard.
TikTok wants to shed its label as a Chinese brand as the
social-media company faces scrutiny from U.S. lawmakers and
regulators.
The owner of CoverGirl and Max Factor, Coty, is paying $600
million for a controlling stake in Kylie Jenner's cosmetics
startup.
T-Mobile said CEO Legere will step down in the spring, handing
the top job to operating chief Mike Sievert.
Slowing shale-drilling activity is the latest damper on U.S.
manufacturers that had come to rely on a booming domestic energy
market.
Chick-fil-A said it would limit its charitable giving to
education, homelessness and hunger after controversy over donations
some critics said were discriminatory to gay people.
The Justice Department is moving to terminate antitrust rules
that have governed the movie industry since the late 1940s.
Sony Pictures Entertainment is buying AT&T's stake in Game
Show Network for $380 million.
The FTC is pursuing several antitrust investigations into online
platforms.
Stocks drifted higher in a quiet session, sending the Dow,
S&P 500 and Nasdaq all up 0.1% to another trio of closing
records.
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
November 19, 2019 02:47 ET (07:47 GMT)
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